Vending-machine.



No. 788.897. PATENTED MAY 2. 1905. J. FRITSGHE.

VENDING MACHINE.

APPLIUATION FILED MAR. 25, 1903.

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J. FRITSCHE. VBNDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAB.25, 1903.

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VBNDING MACHINE.

APPLloATIoN FILED MAR. 25, 190s.

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Sintes Patented May 2, 1905.

PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,897, dated May 2, 1905.

Application filed March 25, 1903. Serial No. 149,442.

To afZZ whom, t may cm1/corn.-

Be it known that I, JOHN Fnrrsci-in, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful 1mprovement in Vending-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of improvements in vending-machines, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Figure l represents a front elevation of a vending-machine constructed in accordance with my invention, with the front part of the casing removed to illustrate the interior construction. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section taken on the line .fr :l: of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a vertical section taken on the line y 1/ of Fig. l with certain portions broken away, as will be hereinafter described. Fig. 4 is a detailed view, partially in section, of the coinreceptacle. Fig. 5 is a sectional view thereof. taken on the line e' of Fig. 4-

Similar numerals of reference indicate cor-` responding parts in the figures.

Referring to thedrawings, l designates the casing, having the bottom 2 and the coindrawer 8, the receptacle for which is formed` by the partition 4 in the lower portion of the casing, in which partition is an opening 5, through which the coins pass into the drawer. It is understood, of course, that the mechanism can be employed in connection with only one magazine-that is, where only one article is to be vended; but by duplicating the mechan ism the device is adapted for selling' two dif ferent classes of articles or for doubling the capacity to reduce the frequency with which it is necessary to refill the magazine, although As the construction of the two magazines which I have shown and the mechanism for dispensing the articles are the same, a description of one will suiiice.

Mounted upon the partition or false bottom 4 is a plate 6, from each end of which in the double-magazine frame l have shown rises a plate 7, upon which the operative parts of the device are mounted.

The magazines 8 consist of upright receptacles openin front that their contents may be seen, it being understood that the front portions of inwardly-projecting Hanges 9 hold the articles 10 in place. These receptacles are provided with headed pins 11 at their lower end, which enter the slots 12 in the upper edge of the uprights 7 and by means of which construction they are removably mounted upon said uprights. Situated below the magazine is a bed or support 13, upon which the lowermost of thearticles 10 rest, said bed or support being situated alittle distance below the lowerend of the magazine and preferably a little less than the height of one of the articles to be vended, as shown in Fig. 3. Across the front of the magazines is a stopplate 14., situated at the lower portion thereof and a little higher than the .rear side of the magazine, so that the lower edge of the stopplate 14C is situated in front of the article,rest ing upon the lowermost article, but not overlapping or situated in front of said article. lt is understood, of course, that any suitable description ofy article may be dispensed and that as usual in this class of devices a suitable weight or follower will be placed within the magazine and upon the uppermost article.

The upper portion of the front part of the casing is closed by a sash or frame l5, preferably having a glass front 1G, so that the contents may be seen, and this sash or frame is suitably locked in place as usual. As shown in Fig. 8, the coin-aperture 17 is made in the lower portion of this sash. The lower end of the sash rests upon the upper end of the lower frame 18, within which is made a slot 19, through which the operatingdever projects, said lower frame being' provided with slotted ears 20, engaging pins 2l on the side of the casing, while the lower end 22 of the frame 18 is engaged by the front of the drawer 3. ln this way the sash 15 in the frame 18 is securely held in place. In the lower frame 18 are the chutes 23, through which the articles pass i to the outside, the upper end of these chutes being situated a little in advance and below the lowerend of the magazine to receive the article as it is ejected therefrom, as will be understood.

Mounted upon the upright 7 is a shaft 24, and mounted upon this shaft are the rotatable IOO ejectors,consisting oacoin-receptacle25,situ ated below the lower ends of the coin-chute 26 and to the inside of the magazine, while extending laterally from the coin-receptacle are the ejector-arms 27, situated to pass over the bed or support 13 as the coin-receptacle is rotated, and thus to push from said bed or support 13 or eject `into the chute 23 the lowermost article in the magazine. The coinreceptacle is conveniently made cylindrical in form and is provided with receptacles or sockets 28, disposed at equal distances, in the present case being three in number, and as an article is ejected by a third revolution of said member there are three ejector-arms 27, although it is understood that this arrangement and the number can vary. I have shown collars 29 secured to the shaft 24 to hold the coinreceptacle from moving outwardly, while they are separated by the lever 30, fulcrumed upon said shaft 24, and provided at its work end with oppositely-extending ypins or projections 31, extending over and close to the faces of the cylinder carrying the coinreceptacles. The power end of the lever 30 is conveniently bifurcated and between the bifurcations is pivoted one end of the link 32, the other end of said link being pivoted to the operating'- lever 33, the latter being fulcrumed upon the shaft 34, mounted upon the upright 7, and

upon which shaft 34 the said coin-chutes 26 are also mounted by means of the collars 35, to which said coin-chutes are attached. The other end of the operating-lever 33 projects through the slot 19 and is provided with a linger-piece 36, while carried by said operating-lever and situated within the casing is a plate 37, that serves to close the slot 19 when the operating-lever is released. A spring 38, attached to the inner end of the lever 33 and to a stationary portion of the device, serves to hold the outer end of said operating-lever elevated and the pins or projections 31 at the upper end of the lever 30 just in the rear of the lower end of the coin-chute. To limit the throw of the levers 33 and 30, I provide stop-faces 39 between the bifurcations for the lever 30, which contact with the link 32, as will be understood from Fig. 3.

Situated in the rear of the ejector-arms 27 is a lever 40, pivoted at its lower end and moved forward or toward the ejector-arms 27 by a spring 41. Said lever 40 is arranged to contact with two of said ejector-arms to hold the ejector member in its normal position under tension and against accidental movement, the arrangement of said parts being' such that when the lever 40 thus contacts with two of the arms 27 one of the coin-sockets 28 is situated directly below the lower end of the coinchute 26, while one of said ejector-arms 27 is just in the rear of the bed or support 13, as shown in Fig. 2. When the parts are in their normal position, it is thus seen that a coinsocket 28 is directly below the lower end of the coin-chute and one of the pins or projections 31 on the lever 30 just in the rear of both the coin-chute and its coin-socket 28. The upper end of the coin-chute is preferably enlarged or flared, as'shown at 42, to insure the proper passage of the coin, and to prevent the passage of the coin from the lower end of a coin-chute, unless the operating-lever 33 and lever 30 are in their normal position with the projections 31 in the rear of the coinsocket and the chute 26, I employ a springactuated detent 43, pivoted to the said coinchute, a spring 44, engaging the same, serving to move the lower end of the detent 43 through the slot 45 in the rear side of the lower end of the chute 26 and into' said chute, the free end of this detent 43 being situated in the path of the pin or projection 31. In this way as soon as the operating-lever 33 is moved and the pin 31 passes forward the detent 43 moves into the lower end of the coin-chute and would engage and hold a coin dropped therein until the lever 30 was returned to its normal position in the rear of the coin-chute and in so doing move the lower end of the detent out of said chute.

Extending forwardly from the lower end of the coin-chute is a guide 46. that prevents the coin from leaving the socket 28 while the ejector member is being rotated, it being noted that the length of this guide 46 is such that the coin does not pass into the opening until another package is ejected by reason of the coin-ejector being moved another partial revolution. I have also provided a device to prevent the ejector member from turning more than a third of a revolution, for although the stop-faces 39 are arranged to limit the movement of the pin 31 to one-third of a revolution the impetus might carry the said rotatable ejector member over a third of a revolution, so that two articles might be successively ejected if the lever 33 is moved with suflicient rapidity. To prevent this movement, so that the next succeeding coinsocket 28 is always brought below the lower end of the coin-chute and the next ejectorarm is moved at the rear of the bed or support 13, I provide a rock-shaft 47, mounted upon the uprights 7 and near the rear side thereof, which rock-shaft is provided with an arm 49 and situated in the path at the lower end of the link 32, so that said rock-shaft is turned when the link 33 is brought to its normal position. The free end of said arm 49 passes through the guide 50 to limit the rotation of said rock-shaft. Mounted upon the rock-shaft is a finger 51, which is connected with a spring 52, secured to a stationary por tion of the machine and which turns the rockshaft when the link 32 is raised. Mounted upon said rock-shaft are the stop-arms 53, which when the arm 49 is not depressed by the link 32 and said rock-shaft is turned by the spring 52 stand in the path of the ejector-arms 27.

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rlhus it is seen that when the arm 49 is depressed by the link 32 these stop-arms 53 are out of the path of the ejector-arms 27; but as soon as the lever 33 is operated it elevates the link 32 and allows the spring 52 to move the stop-arms in the path of the ejector-arms 27, the initial movement of said levers 33 and 30, however,'moving one of said ejector-arms 27 by the stop-arms 53 before the latter is moved into the path thereof.

The operation is as follows: The parts are shown in their normal position, and when a coin 48 is inserted it falls into the coin-socket 28. Then when the outer' end of the lever' 33 is depressed the lever' 30 turns on its fulcrum, and the pin 31 thereof, contacting with the portion of the coin projecting from the coinsocket 28, turns the ejector member. The lever 33 being moved to the full extent of its movement turns the ejector' memberone-third of a revolution, which throws the ejector-arm 27 liust in the rear of the magazine acr'oss the bed or support 13 and ejects the lowermost article into the chute 23. Vhen the lever 33 is moved, the shaft 47 turns and throws the stop-arms 53 into the path of the ejector-arms ..27 to prevent the ejector' member from tur'ning more than one-third of a r'evolution, while at the same time, as soon as the pin 31 moves forward, the detent 43 moves into the lower end of the slot 26 to ar'rest a coin that may be placed therein before the par'ts return to their normal position. Of course when the ejector member turns one-third of a revolution and is received by the stop-arms 43 the tensionlever 4() by contacting with two of the ejector-arms holds the ejector' member or the tension in the correct position with one of the coin-sockets 28 below the lower end of the chute 26.

l- Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination, a magazine adapted to contain a plurality of superposed articles, a bed on which the lower'most of such articles rests, a rotatable portion, a plurality of arms on said rotatable portion adapted to pass over said bed, a plurality of coupling means in said rotatable portion corresponding in number' to said arms and an oscillating lever adapted to be'engaged successively with said coupling means to produce a partial rotation of said rotatable portion in one direction only.

2. In combination, a magazine adapted to contain a plurality of superposed articles, a bed on which the lowermost of such articles rests, a rotatable portion, a plurality of arms on said rotatable portion adapted to pass over said bed, a plurality of coupling means on said rotatable portion corresponding in number to said arms, an oscillating lever, a stop te limit the movement of said lever and an engaging portron connected with said lever and adapted to cooperate successively with said coupling means on said rotatable portion,

whereby an oscillation of said lever acts to produce a partial rotation of said rotatable portion in one direction only.

3. In'combination, a magazine adapted to contain a plurality of superposed articles, a bed on which the lowermost of said articles rests, a rotatable portion, a plurality of arms on said rotatable portion adapted to pass over said bed, a plurality of coupling means on said rotatable portion corresponding in number to said arms, an oscillating' lever, a spring to move said lever' to one limit of its movement and an engaging portion connected with said lever' and adapted to be successively engaged with said coupling means on said rotatable portion whereby the oscillation of said lever' acts to produce a partial rotation of said rotatable portion in one direction only.

4. In combination, a magazine adapted to contain a plurality of superposed articles, a bed on which the lowermost of such articles rests, a rotatable portion, a shaft on which said rotatable portion is rotatable, a plurality of arms extending laterally from saidr rotatable portion and adapted to pass over said bed, a plurality of coupling means on said rotatable portion corresponding in number to said arms, an operating-lever, a second lever pivotally mounted on said shaft and adapted to coact successively with said coupling means on said rotatable portion and a link connect ing said levers, whereby the movement of said iirst-named lever is operative to rotate said rotatable portion, step by step.

5. [n combination, a magazine adapted to contain a plurality of superposed articles, a bed on which the lowermost of such articles rests, a rotatable portion, a shaft on which said rotatable portion is rotatable, a plurality of arms extending laterally from said rotatable portion and adapted to pass over said bed, a plurality of coupling means on said rotatable portion corresponding in number to said arms, an operating-lever', a second lever' pivotally mounted on said shaft and adapted to coact successively with said coupling' means on said `rotatable portion, a link connecting said levers, whereby the movement of said iirst-named lever is operative to rotate said rotatable portion, step by step, and a springactuated lever' adapted to bear against said arms and to contact with two of the same when said rotatable portion is in its normal position.

JOHN FRITSCHE.

Witnesses:

C. D. MOVAY,V HARRY Conn KENNEDY.

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